Careers
Falmouth Harbour can offer a rewarding and varied career. Good sea legs are not required for all our roles.
We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application.
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Falmouth Harbour’s waters are buzzing with people enjoying boats of all shapes and sizes – from modern yachts to the distinctive gaff-rigged Falmouth working boats. The area is a haven for sailors, combining sheltered waters, accessible in all weathers and with a stunning coastline. Falmouth Harbour hosts marina berths, deep water moorings, a boat park, and convenient slipway, all in the heart of Falmouth.
We are looking for water-enthusiastic team-players with a passion for delivering excellent customer service to help oversee these sites, including Marina, Small Craft Moorings, Marine Hub, Quays and Fuel Barge.
If you are interested in working at Falmouth Harbour and can demonstrate the following skills, we’d love to hear from you:
- Excellent communications & customer service skills
- Excellent administrative skills including updating electronic systems
- Experience of the marine sector – powerboat, first aid and/or VHF radio qualification
- Excellent IT skills
- Flexible approach to work
- Knowledge of the local area
Please email your CV and cover letter to: sue@falmouthhaven.co.uk
In your cover letter, please state why you’d love to work for us.
We look forward to hearing from you.
VACANCY FOR MOORINGS OFFICER
Falmouth Harbour’s waters are buzzing with people enjoying boats of all shapes and sizes from modern yachts to the distinctive gaff-rigged Falmouth working boats. The area is a haven for sailors and boaters, combining sheltered waters, accessible in all weathers and with a stunning coastline. Falmouth Harbour hosts marina berths, deep water moorings, a boat park, and convenient slipway, all in the heart of Falmouth. Falmouth Harbour is the third deepest natural harbour in the world, and we are looking for a Moorings Officer to manage our 600+ leisure boat moorings, used by our annual customers, commercial organisations and visitors. We want someone who will look at innovative ideas and ways to maximise asset use, revenue and commercial return; working with the Executive Team to deliver these ideas through to completion.
THE ROLE
The Moorings Officer provides a critical role in keeping Falmouth Harbour running efficiently, safely and supporting our required high levels of customer service. Falmouth Harbour is committed to providing all customers and visitors with the highest standards of customer care. This role is five-days per week and at times weekend working may be required to support our organisational objectives and the myriad of events that take place in Falmouth Harbour waters, including Falmouth Classics, racing regattas, superyacht regattas and European flotillas.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
We need a candidate who is passionate about boats and keeping them safe on our moorings, and able to deliver an excellent and seamless experience to our customers. As such, this is a permanent role which sits within the Falmouth Harbour team and will work closely with our Maintenance team on mooring maintenance, strop allocation and life-cycle, as well as customer service and requests.
HOW TO APPLY
Please email your CV along with a covering letter explaining why you’d be a great fit for this position to Holly Manvell, Head of Commercial Operations hollymanvell@falmouthharbour.co.uk by midday on Friday 17th November 2023
Closing date: Midday, Friday 17th November 2023
Interview date: TBC
VACANCY FOR MARINA MANAGER
We are a harbour with a boatyard, marine hub, fuel barge, with a 40+ berth marina and 600+ moorings. The diverse and exciting role of Marina Manager will lead on the “visitor offer” and marina facility. This combines hands-on tasks, such as meet-and-greet, daily checks, booking, safety, organisation of maintenance schedules in partnership with other Falmouth Harbour teams, environmental management, with customer service, customer records, berth allocation and catering to the high volume of visitors and events that stay with us each Summer. The role also involves management responsibilities and the successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day requirements of the experienced marina team and seasonal joiners to run a smooth, efficient operation, maximise revenue and deliver an excellent customer experience.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Marina Manager to oversee our marina and fuel barge services (and visitor and commercial mooring allocations) for annual licence-holders, commercial customers and visitors, alike. We want someone who will look at innovative ideas, projects and plans to maximise the value we can provide to those on the water, working with our leadership team to deliver these ideas through to completion.
The Marina Manager provides a critical role in our visitor offer and keeping Falmouth Harbour leisure services running efficiently, safely and supporting our required high levels of customer service. Falmouth Harbour is committed to providing all customers, tenants and visitors with the highest standards of customer care. As such this full time position will require some weekend working to support our organisational objectives and the myriad of events that take place in Falmouth Harbour waters, including Falmouth Classics, superyacht regattas and European flotillas.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
We need a candidate that recognises the wonderful environment of Falmouth Harbour, the opportunity to cater to a wide variety of water-users, whether local or visiting, and to help us develop a healthy offering for new segments including superyachts and shorter term borrow-a-boat opportunity to give as many as we can, safe and exciting access to some of the most wonderful waters in the world to boat in.
HOW TO APPLY
Please email your CV along with a covering letter explaining why you’d be a great fit for this position to Holly Manvell, Head of Commercial Operations hollymanvell@falmouthharbour.co.uk by midday on Friday 17th November 2023
Closing date: Midday, Friday 17th November 2023
Interview date: TBC
Work Experience
We do offer work experience placements for university, college and secondary school students interested in developing a career in the marine sector within an area relevant to our activities. We have limited resources so to ensure you get the most out of your work experience placement we select candidates based on their areas interest and what we think we can offer in this respect.
In order to learn more about you to ensure that we can offer you a suitable placement we ask for a letter / email from you along with your CV applying for the work experience placement. The sort of things we would like to see addressed are as follows:
- Why you wish to complete your work experience at Falmouth Harbour in particular including what you think you would gain from a placement with us;
- What your current interests and goals are both personally and career wise;
- What you feel you can bring to Falmouth Harbour.
Our contact details are info@falmouthharbour.co.uk or you can write to us at: Harbour Master, Falmouth Harbour Commissioners, 44 Arwenack Street, Falmouth. TR11 3JQ
The purpose of the above exercise is to understand where your interests lie and ensure that we can offer you a fulfilling work experience placement. We also hope the process of applying for the work placement provides experience of applying for future positions to aid in your future aspirations.
After receiving your CV and letter / email we will review them and , if we think we can provide you with an appropriate placement, we will invite you for a short interview.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions that you have. We very much look forward to hearing from you.
